Refugees who came to Canada over the past 30 years end up paying more income tax in this country than immigrant investors admitted under the now-defunct Immigrant Investor Program, critics say. Ian Y...

Logic would dictate that big-earning millionaires continue to earn big after settling in Canada. They might take a pause from their business activities while they settle in to their new country, but it's only a matter of time before the money, and the trickle-down benefits, start flowing, right? Not so.

The Canadian government will give permanent residency to approximately 50 millionaire immigrant investors and their families, under a pilot program set to begin at the end of January. Under the Immig...

Big money can't buy everything, not even Canadian residency. That's a notion that wealthy would-be immigrants are challenging in a lawsuit against the federal government after it cancelled the Immigra...

The fact that the Home Price Index has obscured the extreme and unusual volatility in average detached home prices may itself be a problem. Few home buyers or sellers are likely aware that it is even occurring. It certainly hasn't been widely reported. Since early 2011, average house prices have changed direction by a factor of 10 per cent or more five times. Such volatility had never happened before, and the swings are getting wilder.

OTTAWA - The Conservative government is defending recent changes to federal immigration initiatives after a group of Chinese millionaires issued a public rebuke on Tuesday.At a news conference in Beij...

Since Canada's government announced that it was axing the Immigrant Investor Program, there has been plenty of speculation about what that means for the second-most unaffordable property market in the world, where a dumpy bungalow can have almost triple the asking price as a castle on the other side of the country. The average price of a detached home in greater Vancouver? $1,259,775.

After the Conservative government froze and then cancelled the Immigrant Investor Program, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander is still wooing Chinese millionaires. Alexander used an interview with...

Vancouver's property moguls are in a tailspin following this week's federal budget decision to cut off the valuable Immigrant Investor Program that has proved hugely popular with wealthy Asians lookin...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is frustrated that the federal government is scrapping the Immigrant Investor Program for all provinces except Quebec.Wall said he knows Ottawa had concerns abo...

A controversial program that gave immigrant investors a fast track to citizenship was abolished in the 2014 federal budget. The government stopped accepting applications from foreign investors in 201...

Chinese businessman Jacob Zhou was ready to hand over $400,000 in 2009 to meet the Canadian government's financial requirement to bring his multimillion-dollar autoparts manufacturing operation, and h...